Songs, texts and games have obvious differences, all resulting from the distinctive nature of these mediums. The first is heard, the second read and the third is played. Different senses are used in absorbing these mediums which results in differing interpretations. A text only has the ability of describing a scenario or a view. There are immediate problems with this though as not all words and sentences are discerned similarly by everyone. This together with each readers own imagination results in a wide array of different constructions and interpretations of texts. A book forces the use of imagination in the construction of a scene no matter how descriptive it is, even a book like Brothers Karamazov where Dostoyevsky goes to great lengths in building up the scenes with detailed descriptions. …show more content…
Imagination becomes less vital and the game can focus on the juicy parts, such as storytelling, atmosphere and action. Likely the reason why games are so much more popular among people with short attention spans, especially children. A scene is seen and heard and in the case of The Wolf Among Us is also largely directed by the player. Music is the most vague of these three mediums. Lyrics are often poetic in nature which results in myriad different analyses. Reading the lyrics before hearing a song will undeniably cause some level of personal pandemonium as the music will unlikely fit what one had in mind. Sound therefore being the most vital part of a song as actually understanding the lyrics is much less important in being able to enjoy it. A song is therefore very much up to the imagination, a
In Chapter 2 of Children’s Books in Children’s Hands: A Brief Introduction to their Literature, the authors talk about the 12 main elements of a literary work: genre, plot, setting, characterization, theme, point of view, intersexuality, tone, mood, style, voice, and the stance of the implied reader (Temple, Martinez, and Yokota 24). All of these literary elements capture the reader’s imagination and creates a successful piece of literature. However, the authors stress the importance of genre in Chapter 2, so I will briefly go over the different types of genres there are in literature and how it affects the readers greatly.
The author uses a lot of description when setting the scene, or writing how someone looks. He also uses a lot of color imagery within the chapters and writes in 3rd person narrative.
“ The horizon was the color of milk. Cold and fresh. Poured out among the bodies” (Zusak 175). The device is used in the evidence of the quote by using descriptives words that create a mental image. The text gives the reader that opportunity to use their senses when reading the story. “Somehow, between the sadness and loss, Max Vandenburg, who was now a teenager with hard hands, blackened eyes, and a sore tooth, was also a little disappointed” (Zusak 188). This quote demonstrates how the author uses descriptive words to create a mental image which gives the text more of an appeal to the reader's sense such as vision. “She could see his face now, in the tired light. His mouth was open and his skin was the color of eggshells. Whisker coated his jaw and chin, and his ears were hard and flat. He had a small but misshapen nose” (Zusak 201). The quotes allows the reader to visualize what the characters facial features looked like through the use of descriptive words. Imagery helps bring the story to life and to make the text more exciting. The reader's senses can be used to determine the observations that the author is making about its characters. The literary device changes the text by letting the reader interact with the text by using their observation skills. The author is using imagery by creating images that engages the reader to know exactly what's going on in the story which allows them to
There are many devices within the craft of writing that writers use to help them convey their messages. Among these include what characters they use and how they act, what setting they put their characters in, what types of symbols are use, and many others. They can go even farther into each section with how much information they give us, or how much they make us fill in with our own interpretation or imagination. The writer's choice of characters is a main part of the story, for it is these people that "tell" the story and which we relate it to. The characters' descriptions and their actions are what we picture in our minds. Although they need the other devices to complete the story, the authors use of characters can be what makes or breaks the story. There are many different types of characters that writers can use to help them distribute their message. Robert Frost uses nature as a character in his poem "Once By The Pacific," while Shirley Jackson uses the members of a small town to tell her story in The Lottery. While each is different, they both serve their intended purpose - to tell us a story.
Nothing is ever as simple as it first appears. Because many people take great pride in the army and those who serve in it, the description of the army in Catch 22 has made the novel vulnerable to much criticism. In Catch 22, the army is portrayed as a bureaucratic system, and Joseph Heller has changed the perception of the army in the eyes of readers. The idea of keeping the army in the war depicts the evil nature of army commanders, therefore those who praise the army and its people have created the argument that the language used in Catch 22 is ludicrous and disrespectful, leading to the idea that the novel should be banned. However, the
There are plenty of different kinds of books written, and published today. It’s a interesting form of entertainment that still holds up along side modern adaptations, like television or games. Books have a wider open door to visualization and interoperation. People can read things differently according to their own experiences. It’s up to the author to still allow that room for interoperation while keeping the books characters and plot on track. Looking at a book from the point of one main character, people may want to relate themselves to that character. That way they can feel and experience that change the character does.
When we read books we think. We think about how the point of view of the main character does the stuff that they do. Books make us different from others. Clarisse in Fahrenheit 451 is the perfect example. She walks,
Presented in an actual art exhibit, video games must have some artistic place in the world if they are put into the the renowned Smithsonian Art Museum in the United States. As a public coordinator for the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Laurel Fehrenbach interviews composer Austin Wintory in the article, “The Art of Video Games: The Music.” According to Wintory, who composed the video games Journey and flOw, “Scenes can be built around it (music) and it can add subtext through means only accessible to music.” By this, Austin tells us that much of a video game can revolve around the music and how it adds to the overall mood of the person playing the game. For instance, if the game being played is a creepy or eerie type, the kind of music that should be played should be lower noted strings with a dark sound to it. Getting to how easy it is to put a sound to a game in the twenty first century, music in the gaming industry has come a long way from what it was twenty years ago. Mentioned by Wintory, instead of the chopped sound of the 80s, today’s games can include very sophisticated composed works that require a professional musician, like orchestra pieces. The art in a video game is very important, even more than the music. One gaming company tells how ideas come together as art in a video game in the article, “The People Behind the Video
fiction of real life, songs with brash meanings and language can cause an effect where
There are a lot of ways to present the story which the author wants to share with the audience. It can be a book, a poem, a song, a music item, a film, a play, a dance, anything that the author may imagine. But each form is unique and one and the same story told using different forms will look different. Sometimes a bad story in verses may look perfect in a dance and vice versa. The form in which a story told is important, because it can highlight those important features, which another form may avoid.
Plays express different plots, yet authors use similar writing methods to convey a particular point. For example, one play discusses serious matters, while another play has a comedic tone. However, both plays use physical movement to represent a character’s mood. Death Knocks, Fly, and Our Town are three very different plays with different themes yet these plays use a lot of similar writing styles.
For example, in the movie The Lion king, the song “The Circle of Life”, the instruments used in the song are a piano, vocals, a small woodwind, and percussion. The music starts with very powerful vocals which grab your attention and pull it towards the screen and what is about to happen. The vocals then turn to harmonies from a choir. The music is primarily background offscreen. This means that it consists of sound effects, music, or vocals that originate from the world of the story. For examples, in the movie The Lion King, the animals talk. In real life, animals do not talk. Also in the scene where they sing “Hakuna Matata”, the music in the movie tells what is happening through the lives of the characters, but in the real life all we see is people talking and screaming but not the music expressing our feelings, like The Lion King. Another scene is where the animals sing “Can You Feel The Love Tonight”. The song is telling their love story in through the music but in real life we tell our love story by
Books will give the readers a look into a world full of color, with details that movies can never provide. Many times stories will be all about the details, details that pull the story together.
...these two books with different author, different published century, different ways to create the story. It seems like different, but it’s the same in some way.
The authors of Literature communicate things personally to us, one individual to another. This can help to validate our personal experience first time, it helps to have books written by people who have been there before.